Links

Useful Links

American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Scorpion Systematics Research Group: http://scorpion.amnh.org/

California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology: http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Biología: http://www.ibiologia.unam.mx/

West Texas A&M University, Department of Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences: http://www.wtamu.edu/

Societies and Organizations

American Arachnological Society: http://www.americanarachnology.org/

American Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Type Specimens: http://research.amnh.org/invertzoo/types_db/

British Arachnological Society: http://www.britishspiders.org.uk/html/bas.php

Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO): http://www.conabio.gob.mx/

Convention on Biological Diversity: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): http://www.cites.org/

Discover Life: http://www.discoverlife.org/

European Society of Arachnology: http://www.european-arachnology.org/

Entomological Society of America: http://www.entsoc.org/

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): http://www.gbif.org/

Global Environment Facility (GEF): http://www.gefweb.org/

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: http://www.iczn.org/

International Society of Arachnology: http://www.arachnology.org/

Linnean Society of London: http://www.linnean.org/

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

National Geographic Society: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/

National Science Foundation, U.S.A., Directorate for Biological Sciences: http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=BIO

Natural Science Collections Alliance (formerly Association of Systematics Collections): http://www.nscalliance.org/

New York Entomological Society: http://www.nyentsoc.org/

Richard Lounsbery Foundation: http://rlounsbery.org/default.asp

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections: http://www.spnhc.org/

Society of Systematic Biologists: http://systbiol.org/

Species Survival Commission, IUCN: http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/

Systematics Association: http://www.systass.org/

Willi Hennig Society: http://www.cladistics.org/

World Conservation Union (IUCN): http://www.iucn.org/

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF): http://www.panda.org/index.cfm; http://www.worldwildlife.org

Collections and Directories

California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology: http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/

Center for Biosystematics, University of California, Davis: http://cbs.ucdavis.edu/index.asp

Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Mexico, Scientific Collections: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/acttax/doctos/cc.html

Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Zoology: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/zoology/default.htm

Insect and Spider Collections of the World: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/codens/codens-inst.html

Institut für Systematische Zoologie, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: http://www.museum.hu-berlin.de/home.asp

Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: http://www.ibiologia.unam.mx/

Iowa State Entomology Index: Insect Collections: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/List/Insect_Collections.html

Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris: http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/science/science/ColEtBd/collectionsMuseum/collectionSci.xsp

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Invertebrate Zoology: http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/InvertZoo/

Museum of Entomology, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville: http://www.fsca-dpi.org/OverviewFrame.htm

Smithsonian Institution (US National Museum of Natural History), Department of Entomology: http://entomology.si.edu/

Sociedad Mexicana de Entomologia: http://www.iztacala.unam.mx/sme/

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology: http://www2.nrm.se/en/welcome.html.en

The Natural History Museum, London, Entomology Department: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/departments/entomology/

Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Entomologie: http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/zim/entomol/sammlung.html

Databases

Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

Barcode of Life: http://www.barcodinglife.org/

BIOSIS: Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record: http://www.biosis.org/

Consortium for the Barcode of Life: http://barcoding.si.edu/index_detail.htm

Discover Life: http://www.discoverlife.org/

GenBank: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): http://www.gbif.org/

Hallan’s Biology Catalog: http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/

Iowa State Entomology Index, Databases: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/directory/120/vid/4

MorphBank: http://www.morphbank.com/

TreeBase: http://www.treebase.org/treebase/index.html

Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

UCMP (Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley) Phylogenetics Publications:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/phylo/phylopub.html

World Biodiversity Database: http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/wbd.php

World Spider Catalog: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/

World Taxonomist Database: http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/wtd.php

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Software

Biodiversity and Biological Collections: http://www.biocollections.org/

BioLink: http://www.biolink.csiro.au/
BIOTA: The Biodiversity Database Manager: http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/biota

Bio-Tools.Net TAXIS 3.5: http://www.bio-tools.net/

DeltaAccess: http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/Projects/DeltaAccess/

DELTA/Intkey: http://delta-intkey.com/

Digital Taxonomy: A Web Resource for Open Source Biodiversity Informatics: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8695/

EndNote: http://www.endnote.com/

Freezerworks, Dataworks Development, Inc.: http://www.freezerworks.com/

http://www.biocollections.org/delta/

Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources: http://129.186.120.226/List/

LucID 3: http://www.lucidcentral.com/

Mantis: http://140.247.119.145/Mantis/

Papyrus: http://www.researchsoftwaredesign.com/

Platypus: http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/software/platypus/index.html

Specify: Biodiversity Collections Management: http://www.specifysoftware.org/Specify

UCMP (Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley) Phylogenetics Databases and Information: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/phylo/phylodat.html

Morphology and Imaging Hardware and Software

Auto-montage: http://www.syncroscopy.com/syncroscopy/automontageshort.asp

CombineZ5: http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/CZ5/combinez5.htm

Digital Morphology: http://digimorph.org/

Digital Taxonomy: A Web Resource for Open Source Biodiversity Informatics: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8695/

HeliconFocus: http://helicon.com.ua/heliconfocus/

Integrated Morphometrics Package (IPM): http://www.biocollections.org/morphometrics/morphsoft.html

Microptics: http://www.microptics-usa.com/

Morphometrics at SUNY Stony Brook: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/

Syncroscopy: http://www.syncroscopy.com/syncroscopy/

Phylogenetics Software

Digital Taxonomy: A Web Resource for Open Source Biodiversity Informatics: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8695/

Evolutionary Biology Group, University of Oxford, Department of Zoology: http://evolve.zps.ox.ac.uk/

Felsenstein’s list of Phylogeny Programs: http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html

Goloboff's programs for cladistics and biogeography: http://www.zmuc.dk/public/Phylogeny/

Indiana University archive of Molecular Biology Software (IUBio): http://ftp.bio.indiana.edu/software/

http://ftp.bio.indiana.edu/soft/molbio/

http://ftp.bio.indiana.edu/IUBio-Software+Data/molbio/evolve/

Page’s software programs: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/software/index.html

Page’s software list: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/software/software.html

POY (Phylogeny Reconstruction via Optimization of DNA and other Data): http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

Winclada/Nona/TNT: http://www.cladistics.com/

UCMP (Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley) Phylogenetics Software Resources: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/phylo/phylosoft.html

GIS, Gazetteers, Mapping, etc.

American Museum of Natural History Research Library Resources: http://library.amnh.org/resources/rshelf.html

BioGeoMancer: http://www.biogeomancer.org/

BioLink eGaz: http://www.biolink.csiro.au/gazfiles.html

Columbia Gazetteer of the World: http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/

Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Mexico,

Data Quality, GBIF: http://gbif.org/prog/digit/data_quality

Metadata and Cartography Online: http://conabioweb.conabio.gob.mx/metacarto/metadatos_ing.pl

Digital Chart of the World Server: http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/

DIVA-GIS: http://www.biogeomancer.org/

ESRI GIS and Mapping Software: http://www.esri.com/

GAP Analysis Program: http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/default.htm

GARP Modelling System: http://biodi.sdsc.edu/Doc/GARP/Manual/manual.html

GEOLocate, Georeferencing Software for Natural History Collections: http://www.museum.tulane.edu/geolocate/default.aspx

Geonames Query Home Page, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and US Board on Geographic Names: http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp

GEONet Names server, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html

Georeference accuracy: http://dlp.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/GeorefGuide.html

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html

Global Gazetteer V. 2.1: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/

GTOPO elevation data ('DEM' files of the world): http://edcdaac.usgs.gov:80/gtopo30/gtopo30.asp

Imagery Analysis Support Site: http://www.imagery-analyst.com/listsoftware.php

Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI), Mexico: http://www.inegi.gob.mx/inegi/default.asp

Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Centre: http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/main.asp

Lifemapper: http://lifemapper.org/

MapFinder: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~jfieber/mapfinder/

NASA Applied Sciences Directorate Landsat Images: https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), NOAA Satellite and Information Service: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html

NIMA gazetteers

OziExplorer: http://www.oziexplorer.com/

Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection, Maps on other Web Sites: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/map_sites.html

Remote Sensing Resources, Remote Sensing and GIS Facility, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History: http://cbc.rs-gis.amnh.org/

Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Natural History Atlases, Gazetteers, GIS and Maps: http://www.sil.si.edu/Subject-Guide/nhatlas.htm

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) U.S. and Territories Query: http://geonames.usgs.gov/redirect.html

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Library: http://library.usgs.gov/

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Landsat Collection: http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/imagegallery/silverstream/pages/pgImageDisplay.html?CollectionID=18

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) State and Topical Gazetteer Download Page: http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/index.html

U.S. Naval Observatory Complete Sun and Moon data: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html

UCMP (Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley) Time Periods: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

Molecular Biology Websites, Products and Services

Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research, American Museum of Natural History: http://research.amnh.org/amcc/

ASTM International, Annual Book of ASTM Standards: http://www.astm.org

Barcode of Life: http://www.barcodinglife.org/

BioSupplyNet, Searching for Scientific Supplies: http://www.biosupplynet.com/index.cfm

BioTechniques Molecular Biology Techniques Forums: http://molecularbiology.forums.biotechniques.com/forums/index.php

ClustalX: http://bips.u-strasbg.fr/fr/Documentation/ClustalX/

Complete Genomes: http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/genome.html

Consortium for the Barcode of Life: http://barcoding.si.edu/index_detail.htm

EMBL-EBI ClustalW Site: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/

GenBank: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html

GeneDoc: http://www.psc.edu/biomed/genedoc/

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Protein Extraction, Description and Analysis Tool (PEDANT): http://pedant.gsf.de/

Sequencher, Gene Codes Co.: http://www.genecodes.com/sequencher/

The Institute for Genomic Research: http://www.tigr.org/

World of Bioinformatics Links: http://evol.nott.ac.uk/cmelun/links.html#data